Fake image purports to show shark swimming in flooded NMB highway

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – No, sharks are not invading our flooded highways, and the photoshopped image circulating around Facebook purporting to show this has been used and debunked multiple times since August 2011.

An image appearing on the image-sharing site Imgur.com with the caption: "Nothing special, just a shark swimming in the flood waters on Ocean Boulevard in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina" has been shared multiple times on Facebook in the last 48 hours. The fake image first surfaced in 2011 and originally claimed to show a street in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Irene hit.

According to Snopes.com:

Since then the same image has been recirculated several times over, typically localized to some big city in the United States that has just experienced a hurricane or other weather event producing heavy rains and floods. Its last iteration assigned it to Houston after heavy rains pounded portions of Texas over Memorial Day weekend in 2015.